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Or looking at it another way, you can stress out for a company for 8 year (in case of segment), or or you can join the company as a c-level exec at year 6 for t
by witcherchaos 7y ago
Or looking at it another way, you can stress out for a company for 8 year (in case of segment), or or you can join the company as a c-level exec at year 6 for the same amount of equity
- youeseh 7y agoWouldn't getting to the point where you are a C-level at such a company be pretty stressful as well?
- seem_2211 7y agoThe sort of person who grows a company from Show HN -> Series D is a very different sort of person than the sort of person who can join as a C Level exec.
- nostrademons 7y agoThere's more overlap than I would've suspected - a lot of the Director/VP types that I saw Google hire from the outside (as opposed to promote from within) were folks who had previously founded a company, sometimes up to 4 companies.
- seem_2211 7y agoAgreed, but that's different again. Once you've done a job like be the CTO or CEO or an exec role at a high growth startup (like Segment) then getting into a role as an exec at a larger company.
- nostrademons 7y agoUsually the folks who join a (successful) company as a C-level exec at year 6 are those who previously stressed out for 10+ years, either as a founder or working their way up through multiple successful projects at a big company.